Cate Returns; Nebraska Now Stands Where?

Brandon Cavanaugh

06/11/2005

With all of the rumor and speculation regarding the Josh Freeman/Alex Cate scenario that Nebraska currently faces, the picture got a little more muddled as Cate returned and spoke with us about his trip to Lincoln. Find out about Alex's adventures in Lincoln, his timetable on committing and if Nebraska is still being considered at all.

After hearing what current Nebraska QB commit Josh Freeman
has said regarding Alex Cate's possible commitment, we have now heard from the
other quarterback involved in the angle. Cate returned from a whirlwind tour of
four schools in a few days with a lot of information to sort through and one
decision to come to. "It was nice to see the difference between the schools and
find out what I like," said Cate. Alex said that one school didn't really stand
out amongst the others. "All of the schools were really great, they all had
good stuff. I tried to pick out the bad stuff and I couldn't find anything," he
said.

Cornhusker fans following the Freeman/Cate scenario are
pretty much waiting on Cate's foot to drop to find out what action is next from
the stud signal caller from Missouri. Alex's trip to Lincoln certainly didn't
hurt his perspective of the Big Red. "It was great, it was awesome. The
coaches were really nice. I watched them workout and walked around the
facilities, talked to all of the coaches. I also went and talked to the
business college. Looked around there, it was really good. I couldn't find
anything bad about that trip," he said.

Cate did not commit while in Lincoln, but said that a
decision is going to come very soon. "I'll probably make my decision by
Monday," he said. The coaches at Nebraska also had some interesting things to
say to Alex, as well. "They were saying they'd like me to come here. They're
trying to do a good job of recruiting and they did a real good job about it," he
said. Cate also had some questions about Freeman and his current commitment to
Nebraska. "I asked them about that because they've already had one commit and
they said they were going to take two this year. They said if I committed, they
would take me," he said.

Cate reports that all four schools that he visited –
Nebraska, Oklahoma State, LSU and Arizona – are in the running for his services
and within the next couple of days, it appears that one of those for
institutions is going to have a very fine athlete within their recruiting class
for 2005-2006.